Nuclear waste News

The UK’s Energy and Climate Change Minister yesterday gave the go-ahead for construction of the UK’s first nuclear power station for almost 20 years as planning consent was granted for a new multi-billion pound nuclear plant at Hinkley Point, Somerset

Cobweb-like material found on nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has raised concerns that the site might have thrown-up bizarre genetic mutations in spiders on the site.

Japan’s nuclear and economic crises continue, with nuclear discharge four times the levels workers should tolerate and an economy seriously impacted, but in Washington State is the US largest nuclear waste dump and is called “America’s nuclear bomb

Tokyo - Fukushima’s imperiled nuclear plant is now facing another crisis, with authorities there stating a fourth reactor’s nuclear waste is overheating, which could lead to more spent fuel becoming unstable, compounding an already dire situation.

A response to "Nuclear power and its Risks."